Acknowledgements:
The authors thank Dr Nigel G. Heavens for his kind assistance in providing the source panel data of the Zonal average temperature nightside and dayside retrievals for MY29 that informs this study [39]. These data comprise the first Martian year and a half of observations by the Mars Climate Sounder aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
 
Conflict of Interest:
The authors have received no funding from any source in the execution of this work.
 
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